Aside from a full weekend of music, Buckle Up also promises a lot of good things to eat: Many of the food vendors from the Bunbury Music Festival will be back to keep you fueled for dashing from stage to stage and dancing along with the bands.

Having eaten (and drank) our way through Bunbury last weekend, we have a few suggestions about what to try.

Taste of Belgium's frites: Sometimes restaurant food doesn't re-create well in a festival setting, but Taste of Belgium's frites sure do. Last weekend, they came out piping hot, perfectly firm and with just the right amount of salt, perfect for dipping in their zesty sauce.

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Island Noodles: There's almost always a line for these tasty, Hawaiian-style noodles. The fact that they're chock full of fresh veggies (21 types, according to the company's website) makes them a nice change from typical festival fare. And you get a lot of them, so they'll definitely hold you over until your next snack break.

Streetpops: A frozen pop can be just the thing on a hot day. Made with fresh fruit and herbs, plus local and organic ingredients when possible, Streetpops are leaps and bounds ahead of the artificially flavored concoctions you had as a kid.

Molly Wellmann's lavender lemonade.(Photo: Shauna Steigerwald)

Molly Wellmann's lavender lemonade: Don't miss Wellmann's booth in the Distillery Village (last weekend, it was a bit out of the way, at the far left side of the "village"). The lavender lemonade with your choice of spirit – we loved it with gin – is so light, refreshing and summery; we could drink them all day (and believe us, we tried).

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Craft beer: As at Bunbury, a Craft Beer Village at Buckle Up will serve up plenty of craft brews. Of the dozen breweries represented, Blank Slate and Rivertown are the local offerings.

Dutch's Larder's hot dog: Dutch's will again be serving hot dogs with beer cheese and their own pork belly pastrami. We wish we had a photo of the dog we ate last weekend, but by the time we thought to snap a pic, there was nothing left but a few onions and wistful regret that we didn't savor it just a little longer.

The love child of Eli's BBQ + Taste of Belgium: OK, so what we have in mind isn't officially on the menu, but the good folks at the side-by-side Eli's and Taste of Belgium booths indulged our wildest fantasies last weekend. We asked the Eli's crew to forgo the bun on our sandwich and instead place that juicy pulled pork atop our Taste of Belgium waffle. Can you say foodgasm? Words cannot adequately describe how good the combination tasted, but frankly, it tasted like all things good and pure in this world. At Buckle Up, the booths are once again neighbors – ask nicely, and you, too, can enjoy an Eli's-Taste of Belgium mashup.